Halpern index - Learners -
The index number of the character in
Kanji Learners Dictionary
(Kodansha, Tokyo 1999).

S&H Kanji index -
The index key into Mark Spahn and Wolfgang Hadamitzky'sJapanese Character Dictionary - With Compound Lookup via Any Kanji.
An example key might be ``3k11.2'', which looks familiar if you
know the dictionary. The current coverage is not complete. However,
The authors have submitted the full list of codes, which will be incorporated
``soon''.

Morohashi volume and page index -
Index number referring to volume and page number of the Morohashi daikanwajiten (``Big Kanji-Japanese Dictionary'').

Japanese For Busy People index -
The index numbers refer to the volume and chapter where a kanji appears in
Japanese For Busy People index.

Japanese Language Power index -
The index numbers in Dale Crowley's
The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power

Kanji in Context index -
The index numbers in Nishiguchi and Kono's
Kanji in Context.

Sakade Reading and Writing Japanese index -
The index numbers used in the early editions of Florence Sakade's
A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese.

Gakken Index -
Index into Gakken's A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage

Frequency-Of-Use Index -
The 2,501 most-commonly-used characters in modern Japanese have been ranked,
so you can ask for them by commonness. The data comes is based
on a 4-year analysis by Alexandre Girardi of word frequencies in the
Mainichi Shimbun. Relative frequencies were then derived with a bias towards
the newspaper articles. Note however that the last few hundred kanji
have frequency ranking at are imprecise.

Search via Description

This is the real power... you can describe various things you know about
a character to bring it up. The more you describe, the more detailed the
search will be. Only characters that match all the points you enter will
be selected.

Via SKIP Pattern --
If you want to find a character that you can see, but don't know how to
pronounce, I highly recommend Jack Halpern's SKIP method. It is the method
I use most often, and feels very natural.

In the search form, enter the pattern of the character you want.
If you can't count the strokes properly, you can give filename-like
patterns, a'la ``1-8-*'' and ``1-[678]-3''.

Via Reading --
You can list multiple readings for the target characters, separated by
spaces or commas. Note: there is no ``fuzzification'' of the reading --
if you enter ``ko'', you'll not find ``kou'' readings. Letter case
does not matter, however.

You can be very specific with your request. For example, if you give a
reading with a period in it, it marks where
okurigana begins. Therefore, ``ka.eru'' would
find $B49$($k(J but not $B5"$k(J, while ``kae.ru''
would do the opposite. If you want a reading without okurigana, end it with
a period. ``kaeru.'' would find $B3?(J.

If there is no period, it will ignore okurigana differences. ``kaeru''
would find all three of the above (and more).

Via Number of Strokes --
If you know the total number of strokes, you can enter it here. Note that
if you are searching via the SKIP pattern, it makes little sense to enter
the number of strokes since that information is encoded in the pattern
itself. You can use the filename-like patterns here as well.

via radical number --
for when you know the standard radical number
(as given in most kanji dictionaries,
although not Spahn and Hadamitzky's). You can use the
filename-like patterns here as well.

via the four-corner code --
the four corner system code, which is apparently popular in china.
you can use the filename-like patterns here as well.

JIS-X-0212 kanji isn't as widely supported on all operating systems as
JIS-X-0208 is. As a result, if you are using some kind of encoding
(JIS, EUC or Shift-JIS), you may find that some characters may not appear.
In cases like this, there are two alternatives. Use the graphical-only
support that this server supplies, or use the UTF-8 encoding, and
the character should come up.

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